How long before a single card can max 4k gaming?

nightrider1470 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:30

many years off yet?

shankly1985 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:32

nightrider1470 said:
many years off yet?

I would say around 4-5 years

LtMatt · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:33

nightrider1470 said:
many years off yet?

Considering the 295x2 gets close, id say 1 year from now when the 395x2 hits, it will max 4K.

spot35 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:35

LtMatt said:
Considering the 295x2 gets close, id say 1 year from now when the 395x2 hits, it will max 4K.

Gregster has shown that two Titan's can near enough max out 4k, so the Titan Z should also be pretty close.

shankly1985 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:37

spot35 said:
Gregster has shown that two Titan's can near enough max out 4k, so the Titan Z should also be pretty close.

TitanZ is a dual GPU is it not?

Yaayuh! · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:39

shankly1985 said:
TitanZ is a dual GPU is it not?

Yes, so is the 295 X2

But the question was: How long before a single card can max 4k gaming?

LtMatt · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:39

shankly1985 said:
TitanZ is a dual GPU is it not?

Same as the 295x2 its on the same pcb though, so its a single card...sorta.

Uncle Petey · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:41

It is a single card. It's just not a single gpu

Martini1991 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:41

When we get the next proper die shrink we'll be stupidly close.

That should be next year? Or this year?

Probably easier to say the R9 490 will be the best bet at it

4-5 years is extreme to say the least, if it took that long, we'd have entered stagnation

I expect a single R9 290X to be quite comfortable with 4K gaming on high-medium setting.

meldarthx · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:41

Rossi~ said:
Yes, so is the 295 X2

But the question was: How long before a single card can max 4k gaming?

Tech the Titan Z and 295 x2 are single cards.....

the question was single card; not single GPU

shankly1985 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:41

Rossi~ said:
Yes, so is the 295 X2

But the question was: How long before a single card can max 4k gaming?

My reason on asking. I'll stand by my 4-5 years

Do note here am not talking about 60fps I want 120fps 4k @120hz yes please.

Five.Stars · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:44

shankly1985 said:
I would say around 4-5 years

I would go somewhere in the middle and say 2-3 years until a single high-end gpu can process playable frame-rates at 4K. But by playable that doesn't mean maintain a constant 60fps. However, possibly with the advent of gsync and freesync technologies games might appear smoother even at the lower frame-rates.

Tbf, we don't really know how demanding the truly next-gen game engines (unreal 4, snowdrop etc) are going to be.

I don't think 4K will be fully mainstream by 2016, but it will be very popular with the enthusiasts and graphics junkies.

Boomstick777 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:44

shankly1985 said:
I would say around 4-5 years

Agreed. 4K is a whole lot of pixels and games are only going to get more demanding as we move forward. 4-5 Years seems about right for single GPU's to handle 4K @ max settings.

Five.Stars · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:48

Lol I think 4K fully maxed @120hz is a fair bit away on a single gpu.

shankly1985 · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:48

Take a little look at gregs screenshots on Vram, now I not sure if that was max settings am guessing so. but AC 22fps not playable and Crysis 3 15fps lol on SLI Titans.

Single GPU @4k is easy 4 years away in my book.

Wizzfizz · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:48

It's going to take a good while, maybe 5+ years. Both AMD/Nvidia will milk the market for all its worth by releasing slightly better GPUS year on year, giving us better frame rates at 4k.

llamadal · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:55

A few years, even if they could do it now, it wouldn't get released as it would effectively kill every other product and leave very little room for expansion for the next few years.

Yaayuh! · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:56

meldarthx said:
Tech the Titan Z and 295 x2 are single cards..... the question was single card; not single GPU

Indeed, that was my point. :confused:

Gregster · 9 Apr 2014 at 14:32

Well, regardless of Titan Z/295x2 being a single card (it is). Neither of those can max games at 4K (assuming max being the 60fps number) and will be 2016 in my opinion but then we will have more demanding games

A Titan Z and a half will work is my guess for power needed.

Yaayuh! · 9 Apr 2014 at 14:37

Gregster said:
Well, regardless of Titan Z/295x2 being a single card (it is). Neither of those can max games at 4K (assuming max being the 60fps number) and will be 2016 in my opinion but then we will have more demanding games

A Titan Z and a half will work is my guess for power needed.

I take Max as highest in game settings at 4xAA (but then again 4xAA @ 4K is almost pointless) at above 40fps.